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European Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/25067
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishSuruga BankIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Bank 
Latitude 14° 14' 0" N (14.233333°)  
Longitude 142° 53' 0" E (142.883333°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 14.23; Long: 142.88    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-19. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). Year of proposal: 2006.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Japanese research vessel "Yokosuka". Year of discovery: 2001. History: Named from the first vessel to conduct a full-scale spawning ground investigation of the area, Japanese fisheries research vessel "Suruga-maru". In 1977, an investigation w    
Additional information (en): The seamount is located at the southern end of the West Mariana Ridge, in the Philippine Sea. It is almost conical in shape, with a smaller peak on its southern flank. The top of the feature is not well defined, as there were only a few Sea Beam 2001 mult    
Relation 
Part of  Philippine Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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